Article: It's tricky getting a baby to sleep like one.(experts vary on ways to get infants to sleep)(Brief Article)

New parents have a universal lament: lack of sleep. Babies and toddlers, it seems, have an exasperating variety of ways to keep Mommy and Daddy awake. "I was in a panic with Connor because I just wasn't getting any sleep," says Belinda Murphy, 31, of the first of her two children, now 2 1/2. "I was desperate for anything that would let all of us sleep through the night." The West Bloomfield, Mich., mother soon discovered that baby's bedtime has become a philosophical battleground. One set of friends urged her to "Ferberize" Connor, employing a form of crying-it-out preached by pediatric sleep guru Richard Ferber. Others insisted that she take Connor into her own bed, as ...

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